Galaxy formation and evolution 2010 - 2015
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Institute of Astronomy
Abstract
TThis programmatic five-year rolling grant application addresses one of the most important problems in extragalactic astronomy, the formation and evolution of galaxies. The task is one of the key goals in the current STFC Road Map and is a defining objective of virtually every national decadal survey world-wide. A full understanding of galaxy formation and evolution requires multiple lines of attack. Observations of the resolved stellar populations in the Milky Way and its Local Group companions provide a detailed fossil record of the dynamical assemblies of the galaxies, the formation of stars, and the buildup of heavy elements over a wide range of mass scales and initial conditions. At the other end of the scale, observations of distant galaxies spanning lookback times of up to 12 Gyr provide direct measurements of the evolution of galaxy populations and the buildup of stars and metals with cosmic time. Finally, measurements of the large-scale star formation and abundance properties of nearby galaxies form a vital astrophysical bridge between the studies of nearby resolved stellar populations and the distant high-redshift investigations, by allowing us to characterise the evolutionary properties of the Hubble sequence and the complex ``gastrophysical'' processes that regulate the accretion of gas and the formation of stars in galaxies. In this rolling grant application we propose a series of investigations that will advance our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution on all three fronts.
Organisations
Publications
Bagetakos I
(2011)
THE FINE-SCALE STRUCTURE OF THE NEUTRAL INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM IN NEARBY GALAXIES
in The Astronomical Journal
Ball W
(2011)
The structure and evolution of quasi-stars The structure and evolution of quasi-stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ball W
(2012)
Quasi-stars, giants and the Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limit Quasi-stars, giants and the SC limit
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Banerji M
(2012)
Heavily reddened quasars at z ~ 2 in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey: a transitional phase in AGN evolution Heavily reddened quasars at z ~ 2 in UKIDSS LAS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Banerji M
(2010)
Exploring the luminosity evolution and stellar mass assembly of 2SLAQ luminous red galaxies between redshifts 0.4 and 0.8
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Banerji M
(2014)
ULASJ1234+0907: the reddest type 1 quasar at z = 2.5 revealed in the X-ray and far-infrared?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Banerji M
(2013)
The stellar masses of ~ 40 000 UV selected Galaxies from the WiggleZ survey at 0.3<z<1.0: analogues of Lyman break galaxies?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Banerji M
(2013)
Hyperluminous reddened broad-line quasars at z ~ 2 from the VISTA Hemisphere Survey and WISE all-sky survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Barb
(2011)
Advances in the VVV-2MASS photometric transformations from Galactic disk CASU catalogues: Milky Way demographics with the VVV survey
in Boletin de la Asociacion Argentina de Astronomia La Plata Argentina
Barker M
(2012)
Quantifying the faint structure of galaxies: the late-type spiral NGC 2403?† The Faint Structure of NGC 2403
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society